Corporations get “Social” at the Portland 2007 Internet Strategy Forum

I’m here at the Internet Strategy Forum, in Portland. I’m in the green room with the scobleizer, and can’t check out any of the speakers in the main hall as we’re interviewing folks. PodTech is a media partner of this conference, so we’re doing a bunch of videos.

One of the great things about being in the back room interviewing folks is that many of the speakers are coming back here to be on the ScobleShow or Web Strategy Show, and it’s like our own private mini-conference (except that we get to grill them).

We’ve had Erik Kokkonen from Cnet (Long term Cnet leader), Rey Ramsey (passionate speaker), Mike Moran (A distinguished IBM engineer and search marketing expert), Bryan Rhoads (who’s crafting Intel’s blogging strategy), Mary Alice Colvin (social media and collaboration consultant). Special thanks to Karamy Muessig of Xposure Unlimited who’s been coordinating all these interviews and even making sure we have food.

It’s clear to me that many of the corporations are starting to adapt social media strategies, things are moving very quickly for this group. It’s fascinating, because I still meet a lot of companies (esp when I speak in the mid west or northern areas) that still don’t get it.

I’ll be linking to some of the live bloggers in the session:

Coverage of the Scoble keynote

Here’s a detailed blow-by-blow of the sessions

Scott had mixed feelings of the conference last year, but is glad that the uber blogger are here

McClenahan Bruer Communications (McBru) wishes there were more bloggers here

Great wrap up of Tim Kopp’s presentation

Mike Moran recounts his presentation

Also, people are asking why I’m creating so many Facebook groups, the reason? It’s like the early days of the web, almost like a domain grab, and I recognize the ability to build communities is a great thing to start doing, it’s an extension of other tools and the growth is exponential.

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